Patricia Wentworth (born Dora Amy Elles; 10 November 1877 – 28 January 1961) was a British crime fiction writer.
Any road is bound to arrive somewhere if you follow it far enough
My dear father always said that when everybody had a telephone nobody would have any manners, because there wouldn't be time for them. And of course he was perfectly right.
Children want one thing at a time, and want that one thing passionately.
. . . the things that happened in your body were never as bad as the things that happened in your mind.
Take things as they come. Take things as they are. What does it matter? There's one end to everything.
Things you can't understand are always the hardest to bear. To know why is the first step to consolation.
A lie that is half a truth is ever the hardest to fight.
You cannot divide minds into sexes. Each human being presents an individual problem.
You can't do such a lot and do it all so well and have much time left for the ordinary human feelings.
Anyone who pretends not to be interested in money is either a fool or a knave.
Too much information can be as disconcerting as too little.
I do not approve of children being beaten. It is always a confession of failure.
Mary Stuart wrote, 'My end is in my beginning. ' It is easier to agree with her than to decide what is the beginning, and what is the end.
Emotion which you do not share can become intolerable.
The fact is, people who don't have any misfortunes are very irritating to their neighbours. No opportunities for popping in with condolences and new-laid eggs. No visits to the afflicted. No opportunities for the milk of human kindness to flow. Naturally it doesn't.
Being in a rage was rather like being out in a thunderstorm - you couldn't hear yourself think.
When you've just made the most complete fool of yourself, you feel the need of a specially high horse to ride.
It is the man who is sure of himself who disregards the opinion of the world. To be sure is to have power.
it isn't good tactics to ask for something that you know will be refused.
Nobody likes to be accused of a virtue.